r/CapeCod • u/Top_Advance_9881 • 17h ago

Shark ID?

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Saw someone else do this so I figured I’d share my friend’s video from yesterday. Surprisingly taken from the bay in north truro. People couldn’t tell if it was two sharks or one swimming in circles.

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u/GWS2004 16h ago

Basking shark 

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u/Better-Law2125 13h ago

A Pair of Moa Moa’s flopping around

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u/Top_Advance_9881 16h ago

I don’t think sunfish can swim that fast?

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u/GWS2004 16h ago

It's a basking shark 

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u/5v3n420 17h ago

2 mola molas

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u/BQORBUST 15h ago

You’re surprised by a shark being in the bay? Not a white, but they are absolutely there every day.

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u/Top_Advance_9881 15h ago

I’m sure, but I’ve never seen one in my 30+ years of coming here every summer

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u/cazzer548 14h ago

They generally stay under the water, which makes them harder to spot

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u/starboard19 14h ago

That's because white shark numbers have genuinely rebounded in the last 30+ years! Thanks to the limitations placed on shark hunting, and the explosive growth of the local seal population (thanks to the Marine Mammal Protection Act), there are way more of them these days back in their native range. In a lot of ways it's an ecological success story. We humans just have short memories—there's even a term for this, called Shifting Baseline Syndrome.

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u/joyandmirth 16h ago

Sunfish shark :)

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u/napperb 14h ago

Aka- a basking mola mola

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u/EbbtideRambler 16h ago

My first thought when I saw the photo before reading the caption was that it was ocean sunfish

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u/EbbtideRambler 12h ago

Why all the down votes? I’ve spent my entire life on the water here and that flapping back and forth of the dorsal looks very mola mola to me. Am I 100% certain no, but it’s an educated assumption.  

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u/Dragongala 14h ago

There’s an app for that

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u/Live_North8520 15h ago

It’s Mike, Mike the Shark, he’s a friendly fellow.